Random Steorn update (still no product though)
April 22nd, 2007 by Marc in Miscellaneous Gadgets, Tech News, Wacky Gadgets
This isn’t a news item particularly, it’s more of an “I haven’t looked at these guys for a while, what are they up to” sort of post. I guess one of the things we all do while bouncing around the interweb is make a mental note of interesting companies and products and check up on them occasionally.
No? Just me? Ah well. The subject of this update is a small Dublin based startup called steorn.
Steorn, in case you missed it last year, made a huge splash when they announced that they’d accidentally stumbled upon a way of making a device generate more power than was used to run it. This is called “violating the first law of thermodynamics”, “perpetual motion”, or “complete cobblers” depending on who you speak to. To say it’s a pretty big claim is an understatement - if true it pretty much rewrites the laws of physics as we know them. To do it accidentally is… well, you can see why people are skeptical!
So - what’s happened since they made this rather startling announcement?
Well - over the past year we’ve seen a very nice website appear. We’ve seen a fairly busy forum which seems to attract the usual complement of fanboys (”Steorn are going to change the world, it’s the end of Big Oil”) and detractors (”Steorn are a scam, they’ll disappear with the money”). We’ve had tantalising hints about the technology - magnets are where it’s all happening, apparently. (Funny thing - whenever someone mentions free energy, perpetual motion or anti gravity magnets always get the starring role)
They’ve chosen the scientists who will independently verify their claims and those tests are in progress.
Lastly, they’ve now named the technology “Orbo” and the big news is that there’ll be a public demonstration of it in London in July this year. What form that will take is yet to be disclosed. It’ll be interesting to see what they come up with though, so watch this space!
This wikipedia entry pretty much sums up the story to date, for those who have never heard of them before.
8 Comments on “Random Steorn update (still no product though)”
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April 24th, 2007 at 3:08 am[...] Random Steorn update (still no product though) [...]
KD Says:
April 24th, 2007 at 5:36 pmSteorn is NOT perpetual motion, nor ANY so called FREE ENERGY device REALLY FREE or Perpetual.
Sounds like Steorn basically found a NICH’ some type of compressed state, developed device that converts it to uncompressed state. Creating a path of less resistance, thus tapping and pulling load and creating an mechanical advantage. So what is it? How does it work?
For one thing it’s not perpetual, free and not ZERO.
100% of all matter has been created, NOTHING NEW IS BEING CREATED, it may be converted. Just cannot make SOMETHING out of NOTHING. Unless your George Bush, WMD..
Free Energy, Perpetual Motion, Zero Point. Nothing free about it, the device will wear out, the device cost money.
If Steorn successful, they stumble appon something converts Energy from A to B, drawn load = C.
Pretty dam simple.
Brad Cobb Says:
April 25th, 2007 at 1:49 pmIt does not require a large effort to search and find there are a lot of different approaches to free-energy, and not all scientists take the narrow view that these devices defy known laws, rather the effects have been replicated and confirmed, and now conservative scientists have to deal with their angst in changing to keep current with findings counter to their “comfort-zone” belief systems.
Brad Cobb Says:
April 25th, 2007 at 1:55 pmYou can find video of inventions, papers, patents and other info on free-energy devices at the following website, this will enable you to have an informed opinion, make up your own mind and not have to take some scientists opinion who may be prejudgest or mis-informed as your only means for for making an informed decision concerning the free-energy question. http://panacea-bocaf.org/files/patrickkelly/Start.html
F.N.Goodall Says:
June 20th, 2007 at 6:15 amWhy has this taken so long to prove.Why is a panel of scientists required to judge this? Why if this is true do not steorn simply show in public a generator pumping power into the grid with no input?
John Says:
July 4th, 2007 at 7:29 amIts most certainly not a perpetual motion machine, but I don’t see why some scientists are so closed-minded. Are they not interested in finding out why it works?, even if it is a gimmick. What if it just uses the earth’s gravity against itself? A good test would be to get NASA to bring a small version of the device on their next shuttle mission. If it acts differently or does not work it probably has something to do with earth’s gravitational pull.
Doc Rings Says:
April 15th, 2008 at 2:30 pmWhat’s the latest… pretty much died on the vine…
antigravity Says:
June 26th, 2008 at 11:56 amI had hoped something would have become of Steorn…
We’re also working on a similar project which we have named Project Unity. The difficulty lies in a working Proof of Principle (PoP).
It’s an antigravity device requiring neither fuel or batteries. We have come across a few that have said they could make the device (which is openly available on the website) but have yet to develop a working version. We believe we are on the right track though.
Feel free to read about Project Unity at Gravitycontrol.org. We also have a forum to interact and share ideas. We look forward to connecting with others with a similar interest.
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